Thursday, March 27, 2014

News Headlines (475) 27 March 2014

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► It's time to show off your leadership skills. Some know full well what you can do, while others need to see it firsthand. Take charge of that meeting or ask the one question that gets everyone thinking. This is one of those days -- one of those days when just about everything goes right. In your case, it's friendships, romance and career that will put you on top of the world, which doesn't leave much more to be desired, now does it? Take full advantage of this gift from the universe. Do all the socializing, mingling and introducing that you feel the need to do. All the lights are green. Enjoy!

VLADIMIR PUTIN

Photo Description: It is an impossibility if he's saying, "Come on baby, time for dinner" to me.

■ FOREIGN AFFAIRS 18 March 2014 : Is Putin Rational? Probably. Here's How to Work With Him
■ ABC NEWS 26 March 2014 : Can Obama Reassure Putin on NATO?
■ NATIONAL POST 26 March 2014 : Stephen Harper says Putin is stuck in Cold War as Obama warns of threat to world order
■ WAPO 26 March 2014 : Vladimir Putin wants all Russians to be tough like Steven Seagal
■ CBS NEWS 26 March 2014 : Obama tries to put Putin in his place -- again
■ NY TIMES 25 March 2014 : U.S. Challenge Now Is to Stop Further Putin Moves
■ LA TIMES 26 March 2014 : Vladimir Putin, Russia's human tank
■ WALL STREET JOURNAL 26 March 2014 : Siemens Chief Meets Putin in Russia - German CEO's Trip Marks Countries' Close Economic Ties
■ CNN 25 March 2014 : Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin
■ US NEWS 26 March 2014: Vladimir Putin: The Untouchable Leader. Experts question whether Obama can and should put the elusive Russian president directly in his sights.
■ FOXNEWS 25 March 2014 : After Crimea, what's Putin's next move? Will he call NATO's bluff?
■ BOSTON GLOBE 26 March 2014 : Three myths about Putin's Russia
■ VOICE OF RUSSIA 26 March 2014 : Over 70% of Russians think negatively of US role in world affairs – poll
■ AMERICAN THINKER 27 March 2014 : Unpacking Putin's Crimea Speech
■ USAWATCHDOG 16 March 2014 : Putin Has Nuclear Economic Bomb-Jim Sinclair ■ DAILY MAIL 15 February 2014 : Has President Putin married former Olympic gymnast? Alina Kabayeva flashes 'wedding ring' at TV cameras

► CS MONITOR 26 March 2014 : What role for NATO? Ukraine crisis may push it back to basics.

► NEWS & POLITICS : Vladimir Putin's power. Fred Pleitgen shows how Vladimir Putin's brazen annexation of Crimea has made him more popular than ever. Published on Mar 18, 2014 by CNN

► EDUCATIONS : Peter Hitchens : 'Why I Like Vladimir Putin' at the University of Bristol. Peter Hitchens speaks to the University of Bristol's International Affairs Society on the subject: 'Why I Like Vladimir Putin' on 15th October 2013. Published on Dec 25, 2013 by IASBristol

► NEWS & POLITICS : Jim Sinclair: Russia Can Collapse US Economy, Gold Update, Silver is Gold on Steroids & More. Gold expert Jim Sinclair is issuing a warning of a massive downside risk to U.S. sanctions against Russia. Sinclair says watch the "struggling dollar" and Russia accepting any currency for oil and natural gas. Sinclair explains, "It's struggling . . . because it smells the real teeth of retaliation for sanctions being in the simple acceptance of any currency whatsoever for payment for gas to Europe. Believe me, they will settle in other currencies. . . . It makes energy cheaper. Why in the world would anyone want to pay in dollars if they can pay in their own currency? Russia could retaliate in a way that would have phenomenal impact on the U.S. dollar. . . . Russia has the upper hand. They have it in their ability to turn the U.S. economy upside down and into collapse. There is no question whatsoever. Putin doesn't need a nuclear bomb. He has a nuclear economic bomb that he can set off at any time."

What would the price of gold be this year? Sinclair predicts, "Gold has $2,000 an ounce in its sites in 2014." On silver, Sinclair says, "Silver is gold on steroids. When gold takes off, silver goes up faster. . . . So, the idea you are going to get an old high on silver or better is a given." Published on Mar 16, 2014 by Greg Hunter

► Russia troop buildup on Ukraine border continues - By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON - Western security agencies estimate Russia has deployed military and militia units totaling more than 30,000 people along its border with eastern Ukraine, according to U.S. and European sources. | Video

Mr. Obama, you look stupid and embarrassing. I wonder how the U.S. as a superpower has a president who is blind to the facts of events and can't read history at all. Geez,... dear America, perhaps you'd like to show you are not a racist, you are not anti-nigger, and it's very nice, .... but to sit an idiot as a president means you are an anti-intelligence and supporting international ignorance, because he spoke in an international context while referring to other countries.

► Al Jazeera World : Journey into an Invisible war. A filmmaker travels through the West Bank exploring the relationship between Palestinians and Israeli settlers.

A long-exposure image trails the launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan of a Soyuz TMA-12M rocket carrying two Russians and an American to the International Space Station. PHOTOGRAPH BY: NASA/Bill Ingalls / NASA

CZ

"Thank you for your perception! I like your romantic side, even if I do not always comment and I'm glad that you're in my circle of friends."(Courtesies by: Wolfgang A. Gerhardt)

Wolfgang A.Gerhardt : May be you like this Sunday collage

Cisca Zarmansyah : Before today, there never was a person doing this to me. You create a simple matter to look special. This is a special thing for me.

Cisca Zarmansyah : Thank you. I love it. I love you, my friend. ♥

CieL- FreYa Ceastle : Hmm, he's so nice...

"I am me.
In all the world,
there is no one else exactly like me.
Everything that comes out of me
is authentically mine,
because I alone chose it --
I own everything about me:
my body,
my feelings,
my mouth,
my voice,
all my actions,
whether they be to others or myself.
I own my fantasies,
my dreams,
my hopes,
my fears.
I own my triumphs and successes,
all my failures and mistakes.
Because I own all of me,
I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing,
I can love me
and be friendly with all my parts.
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me,
and other aspects that I do not know
-- but as long as I am friendly
and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully
look for solutions
to the puzzles and ways
to find out more about me.
However I look and sound,
whatever I say and do,
and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time
is authentically me.
If later some parts of how I looked,
sounded,
thought,
and felt
turn out to be unfitting,
I can discard that which is unfitting,
keep the rest,
and invent something new
for that which I discarded.
I can see,
hear,
feel,
think,
say, and do.
I have the tools to survive,
to be close to others,
to be productive,
and to make sense
and order out of the world of people
and things outside of me.
I own me,
and therefore,
I can engineer me.
I am me,
and I am okay."

VIRGINIA SATIR
(American Phychologist and Educator, 1916-1988)

About Me

"When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent. I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent. I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out. I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent. I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out." - Martin Niemöller